"#Adalatherium is the #oddest of #oddballs. Trying to figure out how it moved is nearly impossible because, for instance, its front end is telling us a different story than its back end."
The 66-million-year-old, opossum-size fossil represents a new species, which the study authors have named "#AdalatheriumHui," from a Malagasy word meaning “crazy” and the Greek word for “beast.”
The skeleton of Adalatherium hui, a new gondwanatherian mammal from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar, in a sandstone matrix.
The skeleton is the most complete for any Mesozoic mammal yet discovered in the Southern Hemisphere. The mammal's relatively large size is an oddball for its era, scientists say, since most at that time were about the size of a mouse.
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